232 BETTER VILLAGES

general and vigorous assault upon the whole standard of
living and farming throughout the whole district.

The whole district programme is a big demonstration of
what better farming and better villages should look like
and it must be maintained and developed until the people
learn, and are organized, to do it themselves on their own
and for their own sakes. This will come about when all
this business becomes the common knowledge of every man,
woman and child in the village, when in every village there
are organizations to administer the village and every
villager is a member of one or more co-operative societies
for his production, marketing, finance and everything else,
when every village housewife belongs to a Women's
Institute or whatever other societies are found most
suitable to teach and practise thrift and homecraft.

Till then evetything in this chapter must go on at full
pressure, and even afterwards it will go on, as there will
never come a day when we can sit back and say there is
nothing new to teach the village and nothing new to learn,
to make home and farm and village brighter, happier,
healthier and more prosperous !